Chapter 9.1

Question 1

What is the study of the nature, behavior, and uses of static electricity?

Answer 1

Electrostatics

Question 2

What type of charge does an electron have?

Answer 2

Negative

Question 3

What is the simplest form of electricity?

Answer 3

Static electricity

Question 4

What is the SI unit of electric charge?

Answer 4

Coulomb

Question 5

What law states that opposite charges attract each other but like charges repel each other?

Answer 5

Law of electric charges

Question 6

What are the arrows that indicate how a positive test charge in a field would move?

Answer 6

Lines of force

Question 7

What type of charge does a proton have?

Answer 7

Positive

Question 8

What type of charge does a neutron have?

Answer 8

Neutral

Question 9

What law states that the strength of the attraction or repulsion between two charged objects is directly related to strength of the charges and inversely related to the square of the distance between them?

Answer 9

Law of electric force

Question 10

What is the property that allows protons and electrons to attract and repel other charged particles by the electromagnetic force?

Answer 10

Electric charge

Question 11

What is the term for an atom or other object with an equal number of positive and negative charges?

Answer 11

Neutral

Question 12

Why does a balloon stick to the wall if it is rubbed on hair or a wool cloth?

Answer 12

Because of the build-up of electric charge

Question 13

What do like charges do to each other?

Answer 13

Repel

Question 14

What is the term for an electric field in which the strength of the field is equal throughout?

Answer 14

Uniform field